COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS ONE HUNDRED EIGHTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON OVERSIGHT HEARING ON INDIAN GAMING REGULATORY ACT: ROLE For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866) 512-1800; 2 UNIVERSITY Fax: (202) 512-2250 Mail: Stop SSOP, Washington, DC 20402-000r JONSSON LIBRARY INDIAN GAMING REGULATORY ACT WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2003 U.S. SENATE, COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS, Washington, DC. The committee met, pursuant to other business, at 9:55 a.m. in room 216, Hart Senate Building, the Hon. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, (chairman of the committee) presiding. Present: Senators Campbell, Inouye, and Akaka. STATEMENT OF HON. BEN NIGHTHORSE CAMPBELL, U.S. SENATOR FROM COLORADO, CHAIRMAN, COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS The CHAIRMAN. The Committee on Indian Affairs will be in session. We will now proceed to the oversight hearing on the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act: The Role and the Funding of the National Indian Gaming Commission. We have just one panel, and that will be Phil Hogen, chairman, National Indian Gaming Commission, Washington, DC, accompanied by Nelson Westrin and Chuck Choney. Next we will have Ernest Stevens, chairman, National Indian Gaming Association, Washington, DC. He will be accompanied by Mark Van Norman. Mr. Hogen, please come up and have a seat. Your complete written testimony will be included in the record. If you would like to abbreviate your remarks, please feel free to do that. Welcome to the committee. STATEMENT OF PHIL HOGEN, CHAIRMAN, NATIONAL INDIAN GAMING COMMISSION, WASHINGTON, DC, ACCOMPANIED BY NELSON WESTRIN, VICE CHAIRMAN, NATIONAL INDIAN GAMING COMMISSION; AND CLOYCE "CHUCK" CHONEY, COMMISSIONER, NATIONAL INDIAN GAMING COMMISSION Mr. HOGEN. Good morning. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We much appreciate the opportunity to come tell the story of the National Indian Gaming Commission this morning. We have a lot to say, and we know we do not have a lot of time to do it, so I will try to get right to it. But first I would like to introduce the other members of the National Indian Gaming Commission who are with me here today. Our vice chairman is Nelson Westrin. Nelson is the former executive director of the Michigan Gaming Control Board. He was there (1) |